"Same Old Same Old"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I searched at Ancestry.com.  My university library doesn't subscribe to Newspaper Archive.

  http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=Newspaper&dbid=1139&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0

  JL

Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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Poster: Benjamin Zimmer
Subject: Re: "Same Old Same Old"
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On Feb 9, 2008 8:58 PM, Sam Clements wrote:
[Jon Lighter wrote:]
> > Good work, Same source gives me a cite ("same-o same-o") from Aug. 20,
> > 1947, but won't let me see it unless I pay.
>
> Considering the quality of the search engine at that site, unless they gave
> you a :"hit" for Stars and Stripes, there ain't no 1947 cite.

As far as I can see, there aren't any digitized pages on
Newspaperarchive for the Aug. 20, 1947 edition -- it goes straight
from Aug. 8 to Aug. 25. Or is there another way to access Pacific
Stars & Stripes?


--Ben Zimmer

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